Opinion

A conversation celebrating the release of Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic introduces the prolific writer and essayist to a new generation

Representing the UAE at the Biennale, the artist is considered a founding member of the Emirati avant-garde of the 1980s and ’90s

The artist representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale discusses songs that subverts the country’s history of linguistic oppression

After 32 years at The New York Times, the famed art critic leaves behind a literary form that she helped usher into a new millennium 

Other highlights include a Polish crime noir and a spirited solo album from Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker

A personal response to the influential artist and performer ahead of his homecoming retrospective and residency in Manchester 

In a new body of work, the artist proposes a voice that blurs artificial intelligence and liveness

Unidentifiable noises from the ocean floor beg the question, how do we name sounds we don’t fully understand?

The artist's otherworldly aquatic scenes maintain a mysterious and intriguing attraction

Her marine sculptures and installations envision the future from the bottom of the ocean

Other highlights include Calla Henkel’s second novel and an awards season film podcast by Vanity Fair

A recent of production of Sarah Gancher’s satirical play ominously primes us for the 2024 US presidential election

As a major retrospective opens in London, we take a rearview of one of her most iconic works 

Other highlights include the culinary cinema of Frederick Wiseman and Bei Dao’s poetics on life in exile

The poet’s debut novel explores the difficulties of tentative living arrangements against the backdrop of Britain’s ongoing housing crisis

Poet Holly Pester interprets our invitation from the outer depths

As major shows open on both sides of the Atlantic, we examine the medium’s subversive relationship with gender 

The Sunset Strip seduces Kim Gordon, while Chris Kraus prefers MacArthur Park

Other highlights include Flora Dunster and Theo Gordon’s anthology of queer photography and the return of Artists Behind Bars

The greatest trick of the Los Angeles members club is making itself invisible